Improving our environment requires more than a leap of faith. Dramatic change is powered by vision, bravery and the guts to turn traditional thinking on its head.
A series of five new spa villages spring up in the Derbyshire Dales. With the first phase due for completion by July 2020, they will provide 500 new homes.
Six elegant, architect-designed houseboats are bringing a new style of living to this part of the Grand Union Canal in Maida Vale, London. Residents of these floating apartments also have access to the gym, pool and spa at the nearby Harbour Leisure Club.
As London’s roads become increasingly congested, attention turns to the Thames as an overlooked asset. The vision is for a fleet of enclosed, personalised river taxis. Driverless and energy-efficient, they promise to be a new icon of London transport.
Originally designed by Herzog & de Meuron, and evolved by David Morley Architects, the Vision for Lord’s imagines a different future for England’s most famous cricket ground.